1. You seem as though you've dwelt with those who lie in graves
It is death, O son of death, if you do not hasten

2. Listen to the days if you are a listener
For you are between an advisor and one who commands

3. Do not cast news without knowledge
Nor carry the news from every talebearer

4. For how many a dear soul have we seen persist
Only for one of the spheres to turn against him

5. And how many kings are now buried beneath the soil
When just yesterday they sat atop pulpits

6. And how many seek that which they cannot attain
And how many come but do not intend to stay

7. I have not seen any so completely cut off
As the dead are to a neighbor right next door

8. A wise master has arranged this world
Subtle, Expert, Knowing of all secrets

9. If the world leaves a man his faith
Then what he misses of it is no loss

10. If for every blessing you are granted
You do not give thanks, you are ungrateful

11. If you do not prefer God's pleasure alone
Above all else you desire, you lack patience

12. If you do not cleanse yourself of ignorance and sin
You are not pure, even if in the Euphrates you swim

13. If you hold no affection for a man
You cannot influence what is in his hand

14. If you see through the world, then all
You will take from it is provision for a journey

15. Wisdom is only what the noble prohibit
And people are either righteous or corrupt

16. No morning comes but as a counselor
To the steadfast minds with keen insight

17. I see you make light of grave sins in your youth
Yet you are a man, not a lad playing games

18. As if you've never buried a dear friend
Nor for him at the threshing floors of death stood guard

19. I have not seen any forget like death is forgotten
You see it, yet nothing deserves recollection more

20. A man who sells his faith for some paltry gain
Will leave that deal a definite loser

21. And whoever does not set out with wares
To his other home is no trader

22. I am pleased to oppose for every stubborn soul
And all who would boast, my Lord's decree

23. Have you not seen him climb so high that when
He prospered, his throat was slit by a butcher's blade?

24. The world is not equal to a gnat's wing
In God's sight, nor the buzzing of a flying bug

25. No believer accepts the world as reward
Nor does any disbeliever see it as punishment